Paper Hearts

The sirens buzz, lights flash red
this is it, this is war
halfway across the globe posits a certain threat
you must hold back the enemy
they disagree with us, this is terrorism at its worst

[it is burned into my eyes]
and I advise you, soldier drop your sights
look up towards the sky, it will be over soon
as light clouds up your eyes, a memory of her smile
a photo in your hand
[cut out these paper hearts]
and I urge you to reach under your bunk
where you keep that paper heart
that cut-out - you swore that you'd always return
home to your daughter

we must win at all cost, failure is unacceptable
come on soldier do your fucking country proud
burn their heathen homes right down
the religion they believe in - all anti american

Double Negative - Paper Hearts

From a collection of songs that combines "nice" music with scary subjects - in this case.. the nuclear apocalypse

the shadows of the earth falling underneath
I'm waiting for the sun lighting the way
coloured by everyone and anything at all
I'm praying for anything here 
to line up perfectly in the light
thats waiting there for you with everyone you miss
forever I...

sing out lies
caught in time
holding onto anything at all
silent like a ghost shining out

quiet please the noise is deafening
so take me home I can't stay wait with me
there is time to spare I dont want to be alone in the dark
I lost my mind when we said goodbye
I felt my heartbeat slow, dancing in the snow
in a flash of blinding light 
now a shadow lies in silence 
a voice cries out in the distance

Through The Strip - Near Maine (New Version)

Underneath the bridge they crawl like rats
feeding on the filth
the flurescent sun, keeps the shadows dead
it feels like death all around this town
theres nothing out here just lifeless faces wandering

the priest shouts "non believer"
theres a lit up cross on the church
theres a sign that says "joy to the  world"
and the fast food chokes the nation
the people dying on the coffee religion
and in clusters they wait for the end

on the street theres a 1000 lonely souls 
i watch them like the ripper 
waiting in the shadows 
with their voices screaming in my head 
as i wait for the clouds above 
to dissolve it crashes in my hands
in this urban hell we choke on the fumes

it echoes in the tunnels
the machines above
in this labyrynth of flickering
reality turned nightmare

i'll watch the city burn as the sun comes into view
and in this star shaped light
i'll watch your eyes cloud up
the walls and homes crumble in the light of the moon
from above.

as soon as the sun is down

it's like we wait for the end to come
living life with a needle in your arm
intravenously administering apathetic emotion
burn this city


Through The Strip - Adynamia


written in honour of the brave heroes who fought and died in the world wars.

Here I fell
the world so cold and distant
shells drop all around me
cordite in the air
there's screaming now
there's desperation
a longing to get back home
explosions force us back
to our tunnels of cold despair

Here I lie
forever lost in time
marked in white without a name
here I lie
there's sadness now
but days turn to years
our medals mean little now
a relic left to be sold on

overhead the rumble of
the tanks above
pray we won't be buried alive
in the dirt

all the fields sway in the wind
what was once cold and dark
is now sweet and red
the history here
the ghosts of the heroes
that were taken away
far too young for our future


Double Negative - Here I Fell

"There are places I've never been to that would be too dangerous for me. What do you think? Maybe we could travel with each other. Help each other out."

My first thought that night was, "I am Fucked".
A shallow grave, down on my knees...
Bound and Surrounded, Cold and Exposed
A glow behind them called out to me
but before I could call back,
BAM!

Shaking off the dust wasn't so bad.
I recruited 10 millimeter support and
Carved my way through the wasteland
and managed to survive
but you can only go so far alone
you can only go so far alone...

"Thanks for taking a chance on a naive young girl
from California with stars in her eyes
and a pneumatic gauntlet on her hand"

Veronica, our eyes met at The 188
Your skin was radient,
or was that just residual nuclear fallout?
My Heart skipped a beat
when I witnessed you demonstrate
That the device worn on your wrist
Was not a Pipboy but a Powerfist!

"I'm Veronica. I live in a hole in the ground"

We headed up a darkened mountain path
To intercept maniacal broadcasts
But what we found there was unexpected
And chilled us to the core
When we finished off the first wave
Those Morons sent a dozen more
Cause, V, they don’t know you n’ me.
And every one of them fell at our feet.

Oh, Annabelle I pried you from the cold, dead blue hands
Of something not quite a man
You were the missing third amigo
That thing you do so well impresses me and V
Expanded capability
A mile long trajectory

Blow it up!
Burn it down!
But don’t forget to cover me!!
I was ok by myself
Until I saw her face
I only got so far alone 

3 Cards Short - Santangelo

(victim 1)
I am a professional victim
I make my money begging on patreon
I lie I cheat I claim oppression 
when in truth I'm just a cunt
I want to make the fucking world like 1984
(victim 2)
I am shit at making videogames
but that's okay; my parents are loaded
and will pay the bills
I will claim harassment
but I just harass myself
no one will ever give a fuck about me.

I am a professional victim



Double Negative - Professional Victim

a single guitar track with reverb and a EHX superego

Superego Shimmers

Double Negative - Sad song

an Acoustic version of my song "Here I Fell" done in tribute to the fallen of World War 1 and World War 2


Here I fell
the world so cold and distant
shells drop all around me
cordite in the air
there's screaming now
there's desperation
a longing to get back home
explosions force us back
to our tunnels of cold despair

Here I lie
forever lost in time
marked in white without a name
here I lie
there's sadness now
but days turn to years
our medals mean little now
a relic left to be sold on

overhead the rumble of 
the tanks above
pray we won't be buried alive
in the dirt

all the fields sway in the wind
what was once cold and dark
is now sweet and red

the history here
the ghosts of the heroes 
that were taken away
far too young for our future

Double Negative - Here I Fell (Acoustic Version)

One Last Song

Voice Unheard - Through The Strip

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies Cover

Acoustic Covers

The Crawl - Placebo cover

Acoustic 3

Alexithymia (me2)- PStevenson

There will be soft rains

the cars that travel on the lonely highway
the one that has no name and goes to nowhere
that passes a thousand empty houses
vacated to find somewhere better than here
so long we wait, empty and lost
and the ringing in our ears has got so loud
we cant hear a sound of sadness from another soul
thats calling out for our help

the head aches our eyes bleed 
as the heart turns to dust
broken word of love, you lay there so quiet
where everything fades

the breathing of machines has long since stopped
silence shatters the metal torsos 
of the lifeless cities rotting to nothing
and alone a bird, she sings out her song
and wanders on, the snow falls
theres nothing in the pictures we have seen
and the music drifts as the curtains twitch
theres no one to know that weve gone

so please stay a while before leaving this earth
and let the mist outside slowly fade away
when the night comes and the noise has stopped
the ash that we are breath new life here

16 There Will Come Soft Rains

a quick demo of my Devils Triangle Drone Synth (if you want to build on go here www.paulinthelab.com)

Devils Triangle Drone

another Droner track using my drone Synth (you can build one if you go here - http://www.paulinthelab.com/2012/10/devils-triangle-drone-synth-stripboard.html

Droner

this is the modified UV300 pedal by behringer 
mod instructions here /www.paulinthelab.com/2012/10/behringer-uv300-rate-mod-slow-down.html

UV300 Sample

8Bit fuzz

a weird end-song about nuclear explosions at christmas

colours swirl around when I'm tired
remind me of you in the snow
when I look through the blast
casts a silhouette
stand beneath the snow
let me get a good look at you

In The Snow - Through The Strip


The 3 Cards Short writers do an acoustic cover of the nofx song Total Bummer

Go away, sunny day
Go away, sunny day

All the horny people sitting
In front of their TV and thinking
What is wrong with me? I'm not a monster
Why won't anybody fuck me
I don't wanna live life lonely
Why does everyone have to be perfect?

Go away, sunny day
Go away, sunny day

All the barfly's sipping whiskey
Fighting ever present pity
Wondering what they keep sucking back for
Is it the drink or trepidation
Watching all trains leave the station
Left standing alone without a ticket

You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
And you, you light up my life

Stop searching cause there's no answer
Just a long line of disaster
There's no simple way to stop the sadness
Life's not fair I'm glad it's not
This isn't heaven just a lonely
Planet on the verge of self-destruction

Pstevenson&ErinBond - Total Bummer ( NOFX Cover )

I'm hanging on
here until I'm gone
I'm right where I belong
just hanging on
even though I watched you come and go
how was I to know
you'd steal the show?

one day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call
and bet it all
I'm hanging on
here until I'm gone
right where I belong
just hanging on

even though I pass this time alone
somewhere so unknown
it heals the soul
you ask for walls
I'll build them higher
we'll lie in the shadows of them all
I'd stand but they're much to tall
and I fall

february stars
floating in the dark
temporary scars
february stars 

PStevenson

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